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In Mali, west Africa, lives a clan of people called the Dogon. Their astronomical lore goes back thousands of years to about 3200 B.C. According to their traditions, their migrations...

Herero women were required to remove all flesh from the heads to create clean skulls suitable for shipment for study in German Institutes. The German missionaries began working in Southern Africa...

Born a princess, she was a courageous queen whose fame contributed to the victory of the Yoruba people over a neighbouring people. Moremi was a member by marriage of the...

After lots of digging and research, it has been proven that the renowned Hannibal was African and Black. Hannibal whose full name is Chenu Bechola Barca was an intelligent warrior...

Black Caesar was a notorious pirate who lived between the 17 th and 18 th centuries. Originally from West Africa, Black Caesar was captured and sold into slavery. The ship...

Club members, who represented a cross section of the city’s Black-American community, purchased a building at 1517 Girard Ave. in 1940, which they renovated for the purpose of hosting social...

Mary was sold to a man named Robert Lumpkin at the age of around 13 and was forced to bear children for him & help him run a slave jail...

The Mangbetu tribe is an ethnic group located in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, primarily in the Haut-Uele and Bas-Uele provinces. One of the most...

Nubians are a Nilo-Saharan ethnic group indigenous to the region which is now Northern Sudan and Southern Egypt. They originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile valley, believed to...

Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to...

She was once the world`s tallest lady in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Abomah was an international celebrity known as the Amazon Giantess and the African Giantess. In the early...

Emperor Menelik II original name (Sahle Maryam) was born on 17 August 1844. His father was King Haile Melekot of Shewa and his mother was a court servant who married...